MELBOURNE Victory and Brisbane Roar share four of the A-League’s eight titles, but have somehow never met in a final.

That all changes tomorrow at Suncorp Stadium.

And as the competition prepares to celebrate its 10th season later on this year, head honchos at both Victory and Roar say the semi-final between the two teams will go a long way to determining which club will be viewed as the most successful from the league’s first decade.

“It’s a significant game,” Victory chairman Anthony Di Pietro says.

News_Rich_Media: Brisbane Roar star Thomas Broich says his side are fit and excited for Sunday’s semi-final against Melbourne Victory.

“We’re there to make history and we’ll do our best to do it. It’s the first time we’ve played in a final and we want to be the winners.”

Statistically Victory and Brisbane can hardly be split.

Both have won two championships — Victory in 2006-07 and 2008-09, Roar in 2010-11 and 2011-12. Both have qualified for six finals series.

Roar sits on top of the A-League’s all-time table with 107 wins and 61 draws from its 236 games, but is closely followed by Victory with 102 wins and 61 draws from its 235 matches.

News_Image_File: The Victory squad celebrates its 2007 grand final win.

Only Central Coast, with 104 wins and 65 draws, separates the two clubs.

Di Pietro, who has been on the club’s board since Day 1, says Victory and Roar have “started to build a real competitive rivalry given the recent success of Brisbane”.

He also mentions “the coaching change”, referring to Ange Postecoglou’s move south just days after winning a second consecutive championship with Roar in 2012.

But both Di Pietro and Roar general manager Sean Dobson deny there is, or ever was, any bad blood stemming from Postecoglou’s switch.

News_Rich_Media: Adam Peacock and Mark Rudan look ahead to the second A-League semi-final for 2014, with Brisbane Roar taking on Melbourne Victory at Suncorp Stadium.

“That’s football,” Dobson says. “People come, people go. You can either get upset by it or just say ‘how do we make the best from it?’”

It’s not just Postecoglou who has a foot in both camps as nine players have represented both Victory and Roar. Besart Berisha will become the 10th next season.

Goalkeeper Michael Theo is most noteworthy considering he was a part of Victory’s two titles as well as Roar’s two grand final wins.

“Hasn’t he had some success?” Di Pietro says. “He’d be the only A-League player, I think, who’s held four championships.”

News_Image_File: Brisbane’s Matt McKay of the Roar celebrates scoring during Roar’s grand final win over the Mariners in 2011.

“I think what you see is that both ourselves and Victory target the same sort of player, we’re looking for footballers who are very quick mentally as well as by feet,” Dobson says.

“Physical stature probably isn’t as big a requirement for the way that we play because ... in essence we’re both pro-football, pro-movement, we both have the mentality that we’ll win by scoring more goals rather than conceding less.”

News_Rich_Media: Brisbane Roar captain Matt Smith is focused on the task at hand, insisting his side haven't looked beyond this week's semi-final clash with Melbourne Victory.

Di Pietro and Dobson both heap praise on the other’s club.

Di Pietro says Roar should be lauded for its transformation in recent years and insists the stability the Bakrie Group has brought to the club since taking over in 2012 has ensured “Brisbane will be a good club for a long time to come”.

Dobson, who has been in his role for two years now, readily admits tapping into Di Pietro and former Victory managing director Richard Wilson as he sought to make his club an off-field power.

On the field, Dobson says it is “even stevens” between Victory and Roar for the mantle of best club in the first decade in the A-League.